Hamilton Academicals New Douglas Park Stadium

Hamilton Academicals New Douglas Park Stadium
Hamilton Academicals
When Scottish football club, Hamilton Academical FC experienced a series of winter fixture
postponements due to adverse weather conditions, the Championship outfit decided to install
artificial turf. TigerTurf’s Total Turf 60XQ was the chosen product for the installation.
Date project completed: August 2013
Value: £400,000
Surface: Total Turf 60XQ
The Hamilton Story
The north facing pitch at Hamilton
Academical Football Club’s stadium
had suffered from prolonged exposure
to Scottish winter weather, which,
when coupled with a demanding fixture
schedule, caused rapid deterioration
of the natural playing surface. leading
synthetic turf manufacturer, TigerTurf
UK Ltd, collaborated with Chieftain
Contractors, to manufacture and install a
high performance football pitch at
New Douglas Park.
Faced with a very short lead time, the
project took just 5 weeks in total, with
FIFA testing completed in time for the
beginning of the 2013/14 Scottish
Championship season. On completion
of the £400,000 installation, Shaun
Fagan, Commercial Manager at Hamilton
Academicals FC commented: “The
product itself, Total Turf 60XQ, alongside
the additional bespoke anti-flood
measures will ensure that we will be able
to use our facilities all year round, giving
us the potential to increase revenue,
much happier fans and a better training/
playing ground for our players. It will
also support us to continue the projects
we engage in with the local community,
which is very important to the team at
Hamilton.”
Paul Langford, Managing Director at
TigerTurf added: “We are really proud
to have completed our first artificial
stadium pitch in Scotland and that
the club is happy with the end result.”
Since the summer installation, Hamilton
Academical’s performances have gone
from strength to strength, with the Accies
currently sitting top of the Scottish
Championship table. The New Douglas
Park outfit will be hoping that their brand
new playing surface proves to be their
signing of the summer in a title-winning
campaign.